Sky Fibre Broadband

allanb49

Launching this week

Don't know if anything else has been said on it yet

Its Only Ray Parlour

Where's your source for this?

Ogham

Announcement due tomorrow

degsie

Ogham wrote: »

Announcement due tomorrow

Ogham

degsie wrote: »

I never lie

Akrasia

reselling eircoms e-fiber product. introductory offer of 30 euros all in for the first 6 months or 59 euros including basic phone and television package

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/sky-ireland-launches-fibre-broadband-1.2033215

mass_debater

Already a thread about this, launches end of December.

Don't know why people get excited over this, Sky are only a reseller, have no infrastructure at all in this country. It's all marketing. They also have little experience in this field as lots found out when they signed to great promises and their connections went to a crawl every evening that took months to fix.

Akrasia

mass_debater wrote: »

Already a thread about this, launches end of December.

Don't know why people get excited over this, Sky are only a reseller, have no infrastructure at all in this country. It's all marketing. They also have little experience in this field as lots found out when they signed to great promises and their connections went to a crawl every evening that took months to fix.

We shouldn't be getting excited about Sky, we should be excited about the ESB's proposal, not just because the technology appears to be superior, but because it's an entirely seperate network and this will put pressure on eircom to reduce their extortionate 'line rental' charges which is the main factor for our high broadband charges in Ireland

allanb49

Used to work for them got told by someone still in it's bowels

and boom

http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/sky-fibre-broadband-1826213-Dec2014/

jaymes420

I got sky fibre broadband in March, which FYI, isn't true fibre optic broadband, since it's still connected via Eircom lines, which currently don't use fibre optics. Anyway, my wifi signal up stairs in the house is absolutely shocking!! ( 15 feet from the router) which is in the hall where they recommend it being placed....when netflix has problems buffering, you know there's something seriously wrong! .i called them today, and the best advice they could give me was to buy a wifi repeater. Which will cost 50 euro to buy in PC world.

I wish they would have outlined all of these risks before I signed up for a 12 month contract, I most likely would have stayed with UPC, where I can even get a solid wi fi signal at the top of my back garden in my shed!...( and it wasn't even fibre optic)

All in all, those of you with UPC thinking of trying sky,....I would at the very least bring up the information above with them before signing any contract, because if you can't get a full signal throughout the house...then it simply is not worth the money.

jca

jaymes420 wrote: »

I got sky fibre broadband in March, which FYI, isn't true fibre optic broadband, since it's still connected via Eircom lines, which currently don't use fibre optics. Anyway, my wifi signal up stairs in the house is absolutely shocking!! ( 15 feet from the router) which is in the hall where they recommend it being placed....when netflix has problems buffering, you know there's something seriously wrong! .i called them today, and the best advice they could give me was to buy a wifi repeater. Which will cost 50 euro to buy in PC world.

I wish they would have outlined all of these risks before I signed up for a 12 month contract, I most likely would have stayed with UPC, where I can even get a solid wi fi signal at the top of my back garden in my shed!...( and it wasn't even fibre optic)

All in all, those of you with UPC thinking of trying sky,....I would at the very least bring up the information above with them before signing any contract, because if you can't get a full signal throughout the house...then it simply is not worth the money.

Eircom do use fibre optics as you put it. Their current albeit limited availability fibre service is fibre to the cabinet and copper from the cabinet to your premises. If you have the white sky router you're on copper all the way back to the exchange if you have their grey router and an engineer called to set it up you are on Fibre to the cabinet. I'd imagine you have a faulty router.

mass_debater

jaymes420 wrote: »

I got sky fibre broadband in March, which FYI, isn't true fibre optic broadband, since it's still connected via Eircom lines, which currently don't use fibre optics. Anyway, my wifi signal up stairs in the house is absolutely shocking!! ( 15 feet from the router) which is in the hall where they recommend it being placed....when netflix has problems buffering, you know there's something seriously wrong! .i called them today, and the best advice they could give me was to buy a wifi repeater. Which will cost 50 euro to buy in PC world.

I wish they would have outlined all of these risks before I signed up for a 12 month contract, I most likely would have stayed with UPC, where I can even get a solid wi fi signal at the top of my back garden in my shed!...( and it wasn't even fibre optic)

All in all, those of you with UPC thinking of trying sky,....I would at the very least bring up the information above with them before signing any contract, because if you can't get a full signal throughout the house...then it simply is not worth the money.

Sorry to be blunt but the wireless signal inside your house is your own concern and depends of the quality of the frequency inside your own house. Wi-Fi uses unlicensed frequencies so lots of devices use it and in a built up area your own or your neighbors Wi-Fi, video senders, baby monitors could be interfering. Change channel to see if it improves.

Sky fibre is fibre to the cabinet, UPC isn't fibre either, they use copper coax from the street into your house